San Francisco Wine Tours News for 12/05/2007



Tasting Notes ~ VallĂ D'Aoste
His work for the large co op is a good training ground, but there are some winemaking practices (especially in the aspect of maintaining cleanliness in the winemaking and wine storage areas) that need to be refined. ...

Students Pop the Cork at Wine Tasting - Harvard Crimson

Students Pop the Cork at Wine Tasting
Harvard Crimson, MA - Dec 3, 2007
HSA has offered a popular bartending course since 1972, and a course similar to yesterdays wine tasting was first conducted in 2004. .
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HOLIDAY WINE TASTING - Sarasota Herald-Tribune

HOLIDAY WINE TASTING
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 8 hours ago
Midwestern Meats & More, 324 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice, will present an international selection of wines for tasting between 3 and 5 pm Thursday. Free. .
CULINARY CALENDAR Bradenton Herald
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The Cycles of Change
In the wine industry one of the main focuses of opportunity seems to be related to technology. This makes the wine industry no different than most others. Working out exactly how wine lovers will use technology is the key to riches, ...

Wine events: Cafe Madrid opens cava bar with tasting, and more - Dallas Morning News

Wine events: Cafe Madrid opens cava bar with tasting, and more
Dallas Morning News, TX - 13 hours ago
Cafe Madrid celebrates the inauguration of its cava bar with a tasting of six Spanish sparklers (known as cava). "Get to Know Your Bubbles" will include a .
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Hand vs Machine Harvesting
This probably explains why most wine is made from grapes that are harvested by machines. But mechanical harvest damages some grapes, breaking them and mixing their juice with the other grapes. And the leaves, vines, and material other ...

Berlins (cheap) wine bars
With the artists and other creative types that used to call Prenzlauer Berg home slowly getting priced out of the neighborhood, places like the Weinerei are welcome holdouts. A wine bar thats based on the honor system, the Weinerei at ...

Chilean Tourism and Wine Tasting - e-Travel Blackboard (press release)

e-Travel Blackboard (press release)

Chilean Tourism and Wine Tasting
e-Travel Blackboard (press release), Australia - Dec 4, 2007
Last Thursday, the Chilean Embassy-Pro Chile, hosted a very successful event ' Chilean Tourism and Premium Wine Tasting' at the Australian Museum. .
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Wine.com Announces Top 100 List (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Wine.com, the nation's #1 online wine retailer, has announced the Wine.com 100, the industry's first top 100 list based entirely on customer preferences...

Facing sticky wine situations Nos. 1-3 (Seattle Times)
No sooner had I written a column of advice on handling sticky wine situations in restaurants than I found myself in the midst of one. It has led me...

Beyond the Romance of Wine
Wine industry periodicals...

Wine adviser: Dec. 5
Our friends had brought an excellent bottle from their cellar EUR” a 2003 Isenhower Malbec (sold through their wine club only) EUR” that we were enjoying so thoroughly that it was clear a second bottle would be needed. ...

Wine tasting: Swirl, sniff, sip - Richmond Times Dispatch

Wine tasting: Swirl, sniff, sip
Richmond Times Dispatch, VA - 17 hours ago
Wine and Beer Westpark owner Matt Lake demonstrates proper wine tasting steps. Photo By: DEAN HOFFMEYER/TIMES-DISPATCH Looking to host your first .
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HIghlights of the Lille and Paris Wine Fairs 2007
Late November/early December the Vignerons Independants (independent winemakers) hold a series of public wine fairs, most notably in Lyon, Reims, Lille and Paris where you can taste a seemingly mind- and tongue-boggling array of wines ...

Boston Harbor Hotel to Host Acclaimed 19th Annual Boston Wine Festival January 11th through April 4th (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BOSTON----Tickets for the 2008 Boston Wine Festival at the Boston Harbor Hotel are now on sale. Tickets for all of the festival events can be purchased by calling the Boston Harbor Hotel at 439-7000 or 888-660-WINE or by visiting the official Boston Wine Festival website at www.bostonwinefestival.net...

Wine industry groups want more time to fight proposed changes to appellation protections (North Bay Business Journal)
NAPA, Dec. 5, 2007 EUR Wine industry trade groups led by Napa Valley Vintners are alarmed by a proposed revision to federal rules for protecting the names of winegrowing subappellations and are asking for more time to respond with reasons of why they think the change will damage years of work to protect those place names...

DOC Wine Shop Open for Brooklyn
Imbibers looking for something special in Brooklyn need look no further than the Williamsburg Bridge; the paisans behind the rustic Williamsburg restaurant PT and the romantic North 8th Street DOC Wine Bar have now expanded their ...

Food and wine events - San Jose Mercury News

Food and wine events
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 13 hours ago
Testarossa Vineyards presents a holiday tasting event with music, an expanded wine pour, gift ideas and samples of gourmet food items. Noon-4 pm Dec. 9. .
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Seneca Lake Wine Trail event tickets on sale (Star-Gazette)
Polar Passport, Chocolate & Wine Weekend, Cruisin The Tropics Weekend, Spring Wine and Cheese Weekend, The Golden Nose Award, November Deck the Halls Weekend, and the December Deck the Halls Weekend...

Food and Wine Pairings
Today the choices of wine in the grocery and wine stores across the world are incredible. It is in fact possible to make food and wine pairings using almost any good quality wine and well prepared food. However, many folks still regard ...

Repeal This
Of course, the EURœdryEUR part never really began, since Americans could get all the wine, beer and other booze they wanted through the miracles of bootlegging and home winemaking/distilling/brewing. As someone who grew up in the EUR˜70s, ...

BPW holiday wine tasting, auction set - Amherst Bee (subscription)

BPW holiday wine tasting, auction set
Amherst Bee (subscription),  USA - 23 hours ago
The Buffalo/Amherst Business and Professional Women will hold its annual Holiday Wine Tasting and Treasure Auction at its monthly dinner meeting at 5:30 pm .
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Bread, wine and cheese on hand? Bring on the impromptu holiday guest (Eagle-Tribune Online)
Never sure how to entertain all those drop-in guests during the holidays? Just three ingredients will have you covered. It sounds obvious, but if you stock up on bread, wine and cheese, you'll never again be at a loss...

Daniel: Sample the world of wine with a good book (San Jose Mercury News)
It's no coincidence that fall is when many new wine books are released. Publishers are hoping to capture gift-givers who know a wine lover but are paralyzed by the prospect of trying to pick out an actual bottle of wine for that person...

Wine.com lets public choose its top 100 list (BizJournals)
Taking after the popular "American Idol" TV show, Wine.com unveiled its Wine.com 100 on Wednesday, touting it as "the industry's first top 100 list based entirely on customer preferences."..

Eastside Best Kept Secrets - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Seattle Post Intelligencer

Eastside Best Kept Secrets
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 6 hours ago
Wine tasting at the Gorman Winery. You are invited to the Giant Wine Company's Holiday Tasting. Come out on Saturday and Sunday, December 8th and 9th and .
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Wine Society offers classes - Nashua Telegraph

Wine Society offers classes
Nashua Telegraph, NH - 18 hours ago
Introduction to wine: This one-night course with Charles Saunders provides an overview of wine tasting and introductions to wine terminology. .
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Wine List (Creative Loafing Tampa)
Got an upcoming or ongoing wine event? Send information to: The Wine List, 810 N. Howard Ave., Tampa, FL 33606, fax 813-739-4801 or e-mail brian.ries@creativeloafing.com. HOLIDAY WINE DINNER Ring in the season with small-vineyard wines paired with Le Bouchon's food and the music of Largo High's Madrigal Singers. Wines from the Loire Valley and Bordeaux will be featured. $50, 7 p.m., Thurs., ...

Culinary calendar - Asheville Citizen-Times

Culinary calendar
Asheville Citizen-Times, NC - 18 hours ago
WINE TASTING: Flat Rock Wine Shoppe hosts a holiday tasting of whites and reds for seasonal get-togethers, 5-8 pm Friday. Walt Whitney and Ellen Trnka .
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Instead of a bottle of wine, let them pop the cork on a good book (Inside Bay Area)
I FREELY admit I own too much wine. It has overflowed the bounds of my wine cellar and now the drink-soon bottles are stacked down the hallway...



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